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Journalist Jelani Cobb explored America’s history of racism as well as its present existence Tuesday night. Cobb, a professor in the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, has been published in The Washington Post and has written a series of articles centered on race, the police and injustice for The New Yorker. His lecture, titled “The Half-Life

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For some reason that I cannot grasp, George Orwell’s name has been in the news much lately. Apparently this has something to do with “1984,” his 1948 (see what he did there?) novel of a future dystopian Britain (completed in 1948, first published in June 1949, for you English majors in the crowd). This followed

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F. Richard Ciccone’s Fundamentals of Journalism was known for being one of the toughest journalism classes at Notre Dame, but it also served as the spark for many future journalists. “In the toughness, there was the reality that, if we went into journalism, it was going to be a demanding field. We were going to have demanding

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“Congress shall make no law … abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press.” The First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution, as adopted in 1791. Tough facts can make for difficult challenges to the law. A significant blow to the freedom of the press was recently delivered in a report released by the Justice

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In the 50 years since The Observer began, hundreds of students have written for the paper, forming friendships and — in some cases — relationships, which have led to marriages and children. We sat down with a few of our alumni for whom the Observer has become a family affair. “Once you’re in it, The

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In national discussions surrounding the 2016 election, Washington correspondent Binyamin Appelbaum said, one issue is conspicuously missing: economics. “There are a lot of very smart people who want to downplay the role that economics is playing in this election,” Appelbaum, who writes for the New York Times, said Wednesday night in DeBartolo Hall. “They want

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Conspiracy theorists like my sister — a Notre Dame graduate like me, an American Studies major like me and a Lyons Hall resident like me — fervently articulate, unlike me, a distrust of large media conglomerate broadcasting. Her premise is that today’s for-profit media companies mandate news coverage in such a way that they chase

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I hate writing Inside Columns. This is only the second one I have ever written and I am somewhat proud of the fact that I have been on staff the last four years, even serving as Saint Mary’s Editor, and could always avoid picking one up, pawning them off on my staff. But in a moment

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Members of the advisory committee for Notre Dame’s Gallivan Program in Journalism, Ethics and Democracy gathered Nov. 24 for a panel discussion about “traditional” versus digital news and how online publications are changing the face of journalism. The event, titled “The New York Times vs. BuzzFeed: Can Traditional Journalism Compete with Digital News?,” gathered six

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In a lecture Tuesday titled “Journalism and the Coercive Power of the Chinese State,” associate professor Timothy Weston of the University of Colorado Boulder discussed the status of the press in modern China. Weston, who serves as associate director of the Center for Asian Studies at the University of Colorado Boulder, said recent protests in